Ogilvy Promotes Chairman Christopher Graves, CEO Stuart Smith

This morning Ogilvy PR announced the promotion of two key agency veterans: Christopher Graves and Stuart Smith.

Graves, who had been the firm’s global CEO since 2009, will now hold the newly- created title of Chairman; Smith, who served as CEO of Ogilvy worldwide in London, will assume Graves’ former role.

Graves is also a longtime PR advocate who isn’t afraid to jump into the comments to defend his discipline. In the press release, Miles Young (CEO of the larger Ogilvy & Mather organization) praises Graves for his near-ten-year stint at the firm as well as his “public presence, his intellectual force and passion for innovation.”

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